“At the start of the season we were letting in too many goals and undoing all the good work we were doing at the other end of the field.

“But we’ve worked hard to tighten things up and now it’s paying off and allowing the forwards to do what they do.

“At the start of the season we set a target of where we wanted to be at Christmas.

“We are on course for that but we have some very difficult games before then. “We have to go away to places like Poole and Sholing for midweek matches and that will be the big test of how far we have come.”

Didcot took a 15th-minute lead when James Clark clinically finished an incisive attack by the hosts.